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Sinister tales of strange foreboding and merciless dread that will keep you wide-eyed with fear. — ?When I Was Dead? by Vincent O?Sullivan — Alistair, a wealthy, eccentric young man with odd supernatural beliefs, tests one of his strange theories ? a chilling idea that he can summon a ghostly apparition through sheer concentration. He soon discove... more »rs the dangers of paranormal dalliance when he suddenly finds himself trapped in a terrible nightmare of ethereal apprehension and unsettling fear.

?The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar? by Edgar Allen Poe

A classic tale of horror from beyond the shroud of death, Poe?s eerie tale of mesmerism remains one of the most horrifying stories ever written. When a famed hypnotist is called to the death-bed of his associate Valdemar, he enlists his peculiar skill to put the dying man into a trance, thereby easing his passing. The tension begins to mount as the corpse is prepared for burial? and suddenly, shockingly speaks. But the passing is not quite so easy, as Valdemar finds himself in a living dead trance. Begging for release from this terrible condition, he soon discovers that liberation holds a gruesome fate of its own.« less